Fedora Multimedia Installation HOWTO

Update for Fedora Core 5. On the one hand, we can get almost
everything from livna now, which simplifies life. On the other
hand, Totem and Xine are both completely broken.

Revision 4.0

2005-10-09

Revised by: esr

Update for Fedora Core 4. The fedora.us repositories have become
Fedora Extras. Adobe Acrobat plugin no longer seems to be
necessary, xpdf and evince must have gotten better.

Revision 3.0

2004-11-07

Revised by: esr

Update for Fedora Core 3.

Revision 2.2

2004-09-07

Revised by: esr

Corrections for 2.6.8 kernel and Mozilla 1.7.

Revision 2.1

2004-08-03

Revised by: esr

RealPlayer 10 is out in open source. This changes some things.

Revision 2.0

2004-07-14

Revised by: esr

Updated for FC2. Removed up2date methods, as FC2 update seems
to be broken.

Revision 1.2

2004-02-03

Revised by: esr

Typo fixes.

Revision 1.1

2004-01-31

Revised by: esr

Dag Wieers's repository is yum-enabled, so drop apt-get out
of the picture. Add mozilla-acroread installation. Add some
attack-lawyer repellant.

Revision 1.0

2004-01-30

Revised by: esr

Initial release.

How to get various proprietary and restricted multimedia Damned
Things (AVI, Flash, Java, MP3, MPEG, QuickTime, RealMedia,
Windows Media) working under Fedora Core using your normal package-management
tools. Includes Firefox-plugin instructions. Now with coverage of both
32- and 64-bit Intel-architecture systems.

Unfortunately, the news in FC5 is almost all bad. Totem and Xine
are both completely broken.